Spring-seat for vehicles



(No Model.)

G. W. HEARTLEY.

SPRING SEAT POR VEHICLES.

Patented Sept. 25, 1883.

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N. PETERS. Pnmmhagm UNITED STATES i PATENT OFFICE,

GEORGE WQHEAETLEY, OE TOLEDO, OHIO.

SPRING-SEAT FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,617, dated September 25, 1883.

K Application lerl January 1d, 1883. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern! j j Be it known that I, GEORGE W. HEAETLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, inthe county of Lucas and State of Ohio, 5 have invented new and useful Improvements in Seat-Risers for Wagon and other Vehicle Springs, of which the following is a specificai tion;

My invention relates to' certain improve- Io ments in vehicle spring-seats, and has for its obj ects, first, to provide a device for sustaining the elliptic supporting-springs for vehicleseats in such manner as to obviate the necessity of drilling` or punching holes in the springs,

and which shall be capable of being readily attached to the body of the wagon or other vehicle; second, to provide, in combination with the device for sustaining the elliptic springs, means for adjusting and retaining the 2o seat at any convenient elevation. These objects I accomplish by means of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichv Figure l represents a side elevation of my improvement; Fig. 2, avertical section of the same; Figs. 3 and 4, a side elevation and vertical section of a modification thereof, and Figs.

5, 6, and 7 details of some ofthe parts.

A indicates a portion of the side of a wagon 3o or other vehicle body, and B the seat.

S S indicate an elliptic spring of usual construction.

C G indicate the riser-bracket, consisting of a plate provided with lugs or hooked arms 3 5 T T T T, to engage over the edge of a vehiclebody, as shown. The center or middle portion of this bracket is depressed or curved, as shown in Fig. l, and to the lower portion is secured a standard or riser, D, by means of 4o the block V. Said block is provided with lugs or projections o, which fit in corresponding depressions in the bracket C C, and has a groove with scalloped or indented edges adapted to mesh with corresponding scallops or-i entations on the edges of the standard D, and otl'rthedalock V and standard D are iinally secured to the bracket by means of bolt I, which passes through the bracket C, block V, and elongated slot in the standard D, where 5o it isfastened by means of a nut. The upper `portion of the standard is provided with a groove, e, (see Fig. 2,) in which is inserted the lower portion of the spring S. A correspondingly-grooved clamp, E, is then secured to the standard D by means of bolts I I, thus firmly securing the lower portion of the spring in position, and obviating the necessity of drilling or punching holes in the spring for therevception of rivet-s or bolts, which have heretofore usually been employed to secure the spring in position'. The upper half, S, of the elliptic spring is 'secured by means of a clamp consisting of grooved parts E e, the spring resting in the grooves and securely held therein by means of the bolts I I. The part c of the clamp is cast in one piece with a `plate, H, and said plate Hy is provided at each end with a slot.

To the bottom of the seat is secured by means of bolts or screws a plate, K, said-plate being bifurcated at one end, and then turned downward and outward, thus forming two hooklike projections,` as shown at N, and the other end terminates in two projections, P P. (See Figs. l and 7.) K

To secure the seat in position it is merely 75 necessary to pass the bifurcated hooked end N of the plate K through the forward slot of the plate H and drop the projections 4P P into the slot at the other end of said plate H,when the seat will be iirmly held in its position. If it is wished to face the seat in the opposite direction, it is only necessary to reverse the operation and first insert the hooked end N in the rear slot and drop the projections P P in the slot at the forward end of plate H.

Between the plates Hand K is secured the bent end U of an arm, U, said part U being also bolted to the bottom of the seat, and the plate H or K is preferably slotted to receive the said part U. The rod or arm U is bent at right angles to thepart U, and its lower end passes through an ear, X, in which it has a free vertical play, serving to form a guide for the seat in its vibrations, thus preventing all wrenching and twisting of the springs.

In order to adjust the seat to any desired or -convenient height or elevation, the nut I' is rst removed and the standard D lifted from out its seat in the block V, when it may be replaced at the height desired, the indentations on its edge adapting it to t the blockV at any elevation at which it may be placed, when the IOO Y nut is replaced and tightly screwed down on` 5 sition instead of an adjustable one, the standard D may be dispensed with, and in lieu of the block V the block V', Fig. 6, used. The' block V consists of a block of substantially the formshown in Fig. 6, and having a groove, e', for the reception of the lower portion, SQ of the elliptic spring, said spring being secured in place by means of the clamping piece E and the bolts I, Figs. 1 and 2, the saine as used in connection with the standard D, above described. The block V is secured to the bracket C by means of the studs or projections V fitting in corresponding depressions in said bracket, and by means of the bolt I, Fig. 1. "When the riser is thus used, the standard D and block V, as well as the rod U', are dispensed with. e In lieu of the bracket C C being depressed or curved at its middle, as shown in Fig. 1, it may be elevated at its middle portion, as shown in Fig. 3, and this form may be further modiiied by using, instead of the clamp above described, two plates, E E, Fig. 4, flanged at their upper edges, so as to embrace between the flanges and the top edge of the bracket the lower half, SQ of the elliptic spring, and iirmly fastened together by bolts I. One of these clamps E may also be cast with an ear for the reception of the rod U, as before described.

Having thus described my invention, what y3,5 I claim isl. In a vehicle spring-seat, clamps consisting of the two parts E e, both parts being grooved on their inner or adjacent faces to receive the spring, and secured together and about the spring by means of bolts, in combi- 4o nation with suitable means for securing the same to both the seat and the vehicle-body, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the spring S S and clamps E E, secured by suitable means to the vehicle-seat,the standard D, adj ustably secured to a bracket resting upon or secured to the vehicle-body, whereby the seat may be secured at any convenient height.

3. In a vehicle spring-seat, the bracket C C' and standard D, supporting the spring and adjustably secured to said' bracket, in combination with the slotted plate II, secured to the upper portion of the spring, and the plate K, secured to the seat, whereby the seat can be reversed independently of the spring and bracket, substantially as described.

4. In a vehicle spring seat, the elliptical spring secured to the seat and to the standard D, having indented edges adapted to engage with an indented block, V, said standard and block adjustably secured by means of a bolt to a bracket resting upon the vehicle-body, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto setI my 6 5 hand in the presence oi' two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE IV. HEARTLEY.

Witnesses:

J osEPH N. CLoUsn, WILLIAM H. TUCKER. 

